review
Reviews of the top geek movies, tv, and books in the industry.
Movie Review: The Dark Tower
To whomever said that Stephen King’s epic novel The Dark Tower was un-adaptable to the big screen, we owe you a Coke. The supremely silly movie sequel to King’s dense Dark Tower book series is an embarrassment to all involved from King to director Nicolaj Arcel to Academy Award winning star Matthew McConaughey and Academy Award nominated producer Ron Howard, who for some reason passed on directing The Dark Tower himself; golly, I can’t imagine why?
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
It Comes At Night
It Comes At Night is bleak. Unremittingly so. This is, for all intents and purposes, a waking nightmare designed to make us squirm and question the moral quandary at the centre of this grouped two-hander while appreciating the evocative atmosphere, wonderful dark imagery, and brilliant unsettling performances. Yes, it can be a film to admire more than love, which might come later, if ever you deign to watch it again, but really, once around is enough.
By Nicholas Anthony8 years ago in Geeks
Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Review
It’s time to review the easily most polarizing movie in the Transformers saga. Revenge of the Fallen came out in 2009. I remember being very hype to see it, and it didn’t let me down. In fact, to let the cat out the bag, this is my favorite one of Michael Bay’s renditions.
By Matthew Sullivan8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review Masters of the Universe 30 Years Later
The legendary John Waters once defined camp, on an episode of The Simpsons, as “The tragically ludicrous, the ludicrously tragic.” The 1987 movie Masters of the Universe pre-dates that definition of camp by more than a decade but nevertheless defines it perfectly. Masters of the Universe is a tragically ludicrous idea undermined by greed, hubris and the outright silly notion that just because something catches on with child audiences it can be translated to film in anything other than a pathetic attempt at pandering.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Spider-Man: Homecoming Review
After the mild disappointment of The Dark Knight Rises (2012), I hopped the pond over to Marvel. An interesting story is wrapped in the events of this film, and no, I won’t be going into the details of them. All I want to focus on right now is the film itself. It’s released and out now, so it’s time to talk about Spider-Man: Homecoming. This is one of the few superhero series that I’ve kept up to date with, the other being Batman’s stellar The Dark Knight trilogy. Still, this film needed to do one thing for me. Prove that Tom Holland can be better than Tobey Maguire. Did it succeed? Read on and find out.
By Ewan Gleadow8 years ago in Geeks
The Corndog Man
Independent films, for quite some time, have been seen as an alternative film genre that tells off kilter and taboo stories you don't normally see in wide release movies. Unfortunately, indie films have also earned a bad reputation for being vapid art that is offensive for offensiveness' sake, and it's on this side of the genre hemisphere we find The Corndog Man.
By Paper Starship8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: The Legend of Ben Hall
We have a tendency in America to believe that our pop culture is the only culture to embrace our anti-heroes, those rugged criminals whose lives we romanticize into fantasy for reasons we can’t quite rationalize with what these men did. But rhapsodizing about the criminal as pseudo-hero is a truly worldwide phenomenon. The latest example of the worldwide nature of the celebration of anti-heroes comes from Australia with the story of criminal icon Ben Hall, the subject of the Bushranger epic The Legend of Ben Hall which is now available on DVD and On-Demand services in America.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Remembering Dunkirk
The miracle evacuation of Dunkirk in the Second World War has been brought to life again by actors who played the roles of the soldiers who died that day, trying to come home but left vulnerable on open lands of the beaches and the sea. Director Christopher Nolan has turned to the evacuation of Dunkirk for his latest acclaimed film bringing back the stunning great escape that helped Britain avoid defeat in the Second World War, showing that we had risked everything while working to save the British army.
By Lizzy Arrow8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: Opening Night
Opening Night has the kind of scrappy charm that you want out of a musical. It’s shaggy and flawed but it’s also fun-loving and freewheeling. The story of a Broadway stage manager struggling with personal demons from his own seemingly failed Broadway career, the movie may not have the polish of a Hollywood production but it makes up for it with moxie and the can-do spirit of an underdog production with nothing to lose.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
